Metal Peterborough

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Looking to discuss your creative practice, explore a project idea or build relationships with local organisations? Our Open Advice sessions are back! Find out more here: metalculture.com/2025/01/06/met…

Turns out a lot of great things can happen when things go wrong ✨ Thanks to all the artists who hosted dinners, events & our out with a bang party. BIG thank you to everyone who packed, danced, ate & watched with us. Make sure you come with us to our new home...details soon🏡👀

Help us pack up at Chauffeurs 📦 Do you have some time to spare 3 Dec 11-2? Join us for a day of laughs & a whole lot of bubble wrap as we box & label our way to a fresh start. Come for as long or little as you like! RSVP here: bit.ly/3VeMbjH

This ain’t no last dance, it’s a night of celebrations & a reminder that we’re more than bricks & mortar🎉 Hosting the evening is fierce & fab Rhys' Pieces. Providing the tracks to keep us dancing is artist & DJ Byron Vincent. See you at Chauffeurs: bit.ly/3YICfA4

Up For Grabs! We’re hosting an open day this weekend on Sun 24 Nov 11am – 2pm, to give away some of our loved & treasured things, from sofas & kitchenware to bits of the garden 🪴 No need to book, come early for the best selection 👀 #WhatsPossibleWhenThingsGoWrong

If you loaned one of the artworks, let us know in the comments! We’d love to hear which one...or two...or three caught your fancy.  Send us your #WeirdAndWonderful stories of times at #Chauffeurs here: bit.ly/4f2PWkd

Clearly, that idea wasn’t wacky enough, so we invited people to step into the artwork & volunteer as our art librarians too!  The unusual looking characters on our deck chairs were part of artist @_annieb’s work which came complete with a performance from her 👀

We dug out these photos from our Art Lending Library brought to #Chauffuers by artists Zoe Walker, Neil Bromwich & Market Gallery in 2016. It was a #WeirdAndWonderful library for people to borrow art for free🤩

Get ready to see a new selection of street artists take to our walls at Chauffeurs in a fast, furious & freeform art battle 🎨 Come & crown the winner on Sat 30 Nov from 4.30pm. Find out more here: bit.ly/48KI1pe #WhatsPossibleWhenThingsGoWrong

Write Club comes to Chauffeurs with @PoetrySyntax on Fri 29 Nov! A night of spoken word with three team captains, an army of poets & just 20 minutes. Expect joy, catharsis, thanks... oh & a little trash talk 🗑️😉 Free tickets: bit.ly/3URqaXZ

Who owns the land? 🪧 Artists Emma Edmondson & Shaun C Badham are coming to #Chauffeurs for an evening exploring the theme of land ownership, agency & what’s possible when things go wrong on Thurs 28 Nov: bit.ly/4hHb7Kn

Discover creativity in every corner of Chauffeurs! Join artist-researcher Kate Marsh on Thurs 21 Nov from 6pm for a movement workshop exploring what the body remembers, what we want to leave behind & what we want to take forward. Free tickets: bit.ly/3CyiO5i 🤩✨

@AlunMW @PboroMuseum @greenbackyard @StJohnsPborough We love this photo 🤩 What a day!

@MetalPeterb @PboroMuseum @greenbackyard We did a photo outside @StJohnsPborough too

New Henge Heritage was one of those weirdly wonderful events that we loved working on at Chauffeurs 🗿 Teaming up with artists Arianne Churchman & Chloe Langlois, they brought dancing stones to #Peterborough! Send us your #WeirdAndWonderful stories: bit.ly/4f2PWkd

Coming up on Day 6 of #BeingHuman2024... 🌟 Gold, Bold Belfast Energy @BelfastSchArt @BlackBoxBelfast 🎭 Landmarking: A Research Cabaret @DurhamImh 📽️ Marks on the Land @arcstockton 🗣️ Beyond Borders: Sharing Stories of Peterborough @MetalPeterb & more: beinghumanfestival.org/festival-event…

Once all the crops have been harvested, what happens to the stuff left over? Discover the world of gleaning through a free film screening of The Gleaners and I (2000) by Agnès Varda presented by @cinesisterfilm on Mon 18 Nov from 7pm 📽 bit.ly/4fEssSi @gatewayff

Part workshop part dinner, learn how to make dumplings, complete with tasty fillings, over conversations about reimaging spaces & their possibilities 🥟 Explore our full events programme ‘What’s Possible When Things Go Wrong’ here: bit.ly/3AcfsEy

As we say goodbye to #ChauffeursCottage, join us alongside artist collective @HiddenKeileon on Sat 16 Nov from 4pm as we stir ingredients, wrap up memories we create at reunions & dream about possibilities that arise in chaos. Book your seat at the table: bit.ly/3YR9FxA